The 550 Year Old Chimú Site in Las Llamas, Peru Is World’s Largest Child Sacrifice Site
The pre-Columbian burial site of the Chimú civilization known as Las Llamas, in northern Peru contains the skeletons of 140 …
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Earliest Evidence of Warfare
Researchers from the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Center for Human Evolutionary Studies have published the findings of the remains of …
HSV-1 Phylogenetics As A Model for Human Migrations
This has been done before using H. pylori as a model, but it is remarkable nonetheless to see how innovative …
D4500 & D2600, A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia
A complete 1.8 million year old skull found from Dmanisi, Georgia could be evidence that early hominids are actually all …
56 Family Portraits From East Asia
I haven’t bothered to translate this page, but I’ve stumbled across a collection of 56 family portraits from East Asia …
Aerial Photos of Uncontacted People at the Brazilian-Peruvian Border
Survival International, the non-profit organization that helps tribal peoples defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures …
Watch Out! The Anthropologists are Coming!
There’s some bloggable news about how Neandertals didn’t die off due to climate change, which challenges a study from last …
Better Photo of the 3,000 year old Israeli Beehives
By way of Neatorama, comes this much better photograph of the 3,000 year old beehives I posted about earlier this …
TIME’s Collection of ‘Mummies From Around the World’
The first two ‘mummies’ that made TIME magazine’s collection photos of 15 ‘Mummies From Around the World‘ make me raise …
C. abyssinicus Teeth Compared to Modern Female Gorilla Jaw
Following yesterday’s introduction to Suwa et al.‘s new Miocene ape, here is a high(er) resolution photo of three of the …
